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The driver of a van that crashed into LaRoe's restaurant sits at a booth (l.) looking at his van in Grand Rapids, Ohio. According to Wood County Sheriff Mark Wasylyshyn, the van and another vehicle were involved in a traffic crash along Front Street near the restaurant. The van driver, an 84-year-old man from Paulding County, subsequently drove into the restaurant. No injuries were reported. JD Pooley/Sentinel-Tribune/AP

A prairie dog eats a piece of carrot at Salzburg Zoo, Austria. The weather forecast predicts cold and rainy weather for the next days. Kerstin Joensson/AP

Mirette Franklin (l.) and Elsabet Franklin (c.) both biological sisters adopted in Ethiopia, hold flags as they listen to the singing of the national anthem during the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Adoption Day ceremony in New York. In recognition of November as National Adoption Month, USCIS naturalized 17 adopted children from six countries so that they may celebrate their first Thanksgiving with their families as American citizens. Bebeto Matthews/AP

Muslim pilgrims cast stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called Jamarat, the last rite of the annual hajj, in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws 2.5 million visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world. Hassan Ammar/AP

A mother prays for her child's success in college entrance exams during a special service at a Buddhist temple in Seoul. Acceptance into a prestigious university in South Korea is highly sought-after, resulting in students beginning preparations for these entrance exams from a very early age and often studying up to 16 hours a day for years. About 712,000 high school seniors and graduates began taking the government-sponsored College Scholastic Ability Test on Thursday throughout the nation. Truth Leem/Reuters

General Motors Co. CEO Daniel Akerson sits in the driver's seat of a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro in front of the New York Stock Exchange following GM's initial public offering in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP

Rep. Peter Welch, (D) of Vermont listens (l.) as Rep. John Lewis, (D) of Georgia (r.) speaks on behalf of Rep. Charles Rangel, (D) of New York (c.) on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the House Ethics Committee hearing. Harry Hamburg/AP

Greenpeace's ship Rainbow Warrior III is loaded onto a pontoon for transportation at Maritim Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. The unfinished vessel will be transported by tugboat to Bern and north to Germany. The ship will be Greenpeace's first purpose-built vessel for campaigning against environmental abuse, in contrast to the first and second Rainbow Warriors which were converted trawling vessels, according to the green group's website. Oliver Tjaden/Greenpeace/Reuters

Birds are displayed at a bird market in Hong Kong. The government will step up measures against bird flu after a Hong Kong woman who contracted a variant of the H5N1 bird flu was warded in intensive care, Health Secretary York Chow said on Thursday. Tyrone Siu/Reuters

Inmates of the Rahova prison compete during an arm wrestling competition in Bucharest, Romania. Inmates competed in various weight categories and were given the opportunity to face 90kg class world arm wrestling champion Ion Oncescu (not seen). Vadim Ghirda/AP

Demonstrators run past burning tires during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Following days of rioting in northern Haiti over suspicions that UN soldiers introduced a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 1,000 people, protesters in Haiti's capital clashed with police Thursday lashing out at UN peacekeepers and the government, blocking roads, and attacking foreigners' vehicles. Emilio Morenatti/AP

Two teams of Canadian soldiers play an improvised hockey match at Kandahar airfield, Afghanistan. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP

International Space Station crew members (l.-r.): NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman, Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratiev, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Angelo Nespoli pose for a picture inside the landing capsule of the Soyuz TM rocket at the Star City space center outside Moscow. The crew is due to travel by Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station in December. Sergei Remezov/Reuters

A supporter of Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, dressed in an indigenous costume, plays the pututo, a ceremonial instrument, before a news conference in Lima. Pizango, who represents tribes that clashed with police last year over oil projects on ancestral lands, said on Thursday he will run for president next year. Pilar Olivares/Reuters

Actors perform on stage during a dress rehearsal of Astrid Lindgren's play 'Rasmus, Pontus und der Schwertschlucker' (Rasmus, Pontus, and the sword-swallower) at Akademietheater in Vienna. The play is directed by Annette Raffalt and will premiere on Nov. 20. Herwig Prammer/Reuters